From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: flushing buffers
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:02:06 -0800
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tehmul%NIITPUN AT iris DOT ernet DOT in wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem.  ANSI doesn't define fflush on input streams which is
> why the fflush didn't work.  Use rewind( stdin ) instead of fflush( stdin ).
> That ought to cure your woes.

I didn't know that rewind() was defined on stdin...  but the libc docs
show rewind( stdin ) as its example!  Is this ANSI-compliant behavior?

-- 
John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I <fighteer AT cs DOT com>

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